In comparison to ovic, Reynolds joined the war precisely because she was acquainted with its unjustness and with the suffering that it provoked. She too had initially been inclined to support the war, particularly considering that her brother was already on the front and her father performed efforts with the purpose of having more Americans involved in the conflict. However, as time passed, she realized that the war was immoral and that the government was practically encouraging young people to risk their lives for an absurd cause. Moreover, when she actually came to witness the war directly, she discovered that the U.S. showed no interest whatsoever in the fate of people in Vietnam. Its only purpose was apparently that of eradicating communism, regardless of the consequences of such an act. The war no longer seemed to be glorious when considering that U.S. soldiers were reported to have committed war crimes.
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mlaKovic, Ron, Born on the Fourth of July, (Akashic Books, 2005).
Ninh, Bao, The sorrow of war: a novel of North Vietnam, (Riverhead Books, 1996).
Reynolds Powell, Mary, A world of hurt, (Greenleaf Book, 2000)
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Type in 'the Vietnam war' on the Google search engine and 9, 470,000 web sites will pop up. Aside from being the longest war involving American troops, it has become to be known as the most unpopular war.
The first site listed is "The American Experience: Vietnam Online" at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/which provides an extensive detailed history of the war. There are numerous information links on the home page, such as an in-depth introduction, a timeline, a who's who, reflections on the war, and a link called 'In the Trenches' which provides information on the My Lai Massacre, the M.I.A. issue, and a listing of weapons possessed by each side.
It also provides links to the program transcripts of the PBS special, including "
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mlaWorks Cited
Vets With a Mission. http://www.vwam.com/vets/hisintro.html
Vietnam War: 1965-1973. http://www.vietnamwar.com/
The American Experience: Vietnam Online. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam
This ability to use the bipolar system to its advantage helped North Vietnam to win its war for independence and to take over South Vietnam in 1975. Realism not only fully explains the actions of each state in this conflict, but it also predicted the outbreak of war as soon as ideology became the focus of the debate on Vietnam.
In Conclusion, the Vietnam War was an excellent example of the interconnected nature of international relations theories, and each of the three theories applied explained at least a portion of the war's significance to its main actors. Realism, however, is a universally applied theory during state on state conflict, and the importance of maintaining stature in international affairs ultimately reigns supreme in the minds of policy makers and world leaders in all states.
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mlaMoravcsik, A. (2011). "Liberalism and International Relations." Harvard University and University of Chicago. Paper No. 92-6. Retrieved August 28, 2011, from .https://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/library/liberalism_working.pdf
"IR Theory Base." (2011). Retrieved August 28, 2011, from .http://www.irtheory.com/know.htm
"Brief History of Vietnam." (2011). VietVentures. Retrieved August 28, 2011, from .http://www.vietventures.com/Vietnam/history_vietnam.asp
Vietnam: An Unpopular War
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The paper takes a look into the unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the failed strategies, which resulted in the defeat of the U.S. army in Vietnam.
A lot of news and opinions exist regarding the Vietnam War, which tells us about its unpopularity (Writer Thoughts). Several reasons exist about this specific topic and this paper addresses those reasons.
Different scholars have put forward arguments regarding the strategy of America, who used a conventional military strategy, rather than the one formed on the counterinsurgency principles, during the war in Vietnam. Jonathan Caverley, in his recent article, talks about a very strong challenge towards Vietnam War's historiography. Caverley rejects the focus of standard history on the strategic perspective, and organizational culture of the American army and General William Westmoreland, and presents an argument that the foundation of the American strategy in that war can be linked back to…...
mlaReferences
Lau, R., Brown, T., & Sears, D. (1978). Self-Interest and Civilians' Attitudes toward the Vietnam War. The Public Opinion Quarterly,42(4), 464-483. Retrieved, from http://www.issr.ucla.edu/sears/pubs/A049.pdf
McAllister, J. (2010). "Who Lost Vietnam? Soldiers, Civilians, and U.S. Military Strategy." International Security,35(3), 95-123. Retrieved, from http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20602/who_lost_vietnam_soldiers_civilians_and_us_military_strategy.html
Moyar, M. (2006).Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Cambridge University Press.
Tannenwald, N. (2006). Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War. The Journal of Strategic Studies,29(4), 675-722. Retrieved, from http://www.watsoninstitute.org/pub/vietnam_weapons.pdf
Introduction
The American Vietnam War (1965-1975) was a complex affair that encompassed many themes and issues—from the fight to contain Communism, which was very much on the minds of many Americans especially since Kennedy had been said to have been assassinated by one, to the problem of the draft and rising protests against the war. As perception of the war changed over time with the help of media interventions, both the myth of the war and the reality of war intersected and became interwoven in a complicated tapestry of conflicting ideas, rumors and facts. The Vietnam War was both a war of political incompetence, military atrocities and government lies and also a war in which heroism still appeared and American ideals were pursued.
The Role of the Media
Following the conclusion of the “Good War,” American soldiers were idolized, their heroics and charisma captured in iconic images like the hoisting of the flag…...
World War I, Americans realized their mistake in participating in the war. The country did not wish to repeat the same mistake again. Therefore, during the 1920s and 1930s, America aims to pursue numer of approaches intended at preventing war. The first significant players towards this effort were American peace societies, numerous societies elonging to this causes were a part of a igger set of gloal movements. Their efforts saw to the signing of a significant agreement in 1922 etween the great powers in order to minimize their quantities of attleships (Karsten, 2006, p. 36).
The attack on Pearl Haror y the Japanese prompted America's participation in WWII. Prior to this, America remained neutral, even with attacks from German torpedoes on USS Reuen (Beard, 1948, p. 148). Although neutral, America still took some offensive tactics when the Kearny incident involved an attack on an unmanned German weather station.
Pearl Haror rought…...
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Tatum, D. (2002). Who influenced whom?. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Vietnam War on the issue of class and race on the Black Americans who participated in the war too.
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America has in many wars, starting from the evolutionary era to the war in Vietnam. These wars have inflicted the American society with frequent problems related to paranoia, racial prejudice and discrimination. In any war, the racial groups, ethnic minority or beliefs are discriminated against the enemy from that period, whether the enemy has been the Southerners as in the Civil War, or the Japanese in WWII, Germans or communists. However, the reality is that the Black Americans have suffered from never-ending and unprecedented discrimination irrespective of the enemy in the war. This essay highlights the issues of class and race and its affects during and after the end of the cold war in Vietnam. This paper reviews the history of how their involvement and what their treatment was like…...
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EDELMAN B. (ed), Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam,
London, PocketBooks, 1985
Fighting Racism in World War II, (USA, Monad Press, 1980), p34
G. Perret, A Country Made By War, (New York, Vintage, 1990), p458
Vietnam War [...] what role the United States should have played in the Vietnam War.
role in the Vietnam War was controversial from the first. Thousands of Americans protested the war while thousands more lost their lives in the fight. The war killed 58,000 Americans, and cost Americans about $150 billion dollars. America first sent troops to the war because leaders felt it was the only way to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia (McCullough). The role of the United States as a co-defender of South Vietnam against the spread of communism did not end well, and why the U.S. was involved in the war is still a pressing question.
In retrospect, it is simple to say the U.S. had no business in South Vietnam, and ultimately the U.S. presence meant nothing, and the South fell to communism anyway. The U.S. role in Vietnam should have been much less…...
mlaBibliography
Kirkwood-Tucker, Toni Fuss, and Janet E. Benton. "The Lessons of Vietnam: Using Literature to Introduce Students to the Vietnam War." Social Education 66.6 (2002): 362+.
McCullough, David. "The American Experience: Vietnam: Introduction." PBS.org. 2003. 1 Aug. 2003.
It did not help matters that America seemed to be floundering in Vietnam. Things were not good for the soldiers and there was no plan for things to get better. This state of affairs in ashington only made tension in America worse. As time went by, "key moderates within and outside the government became convinced that victory was beyond the resources of the United States" (1207). Davidson writes that student protests "forced policy makers and citizens to take a sobering look at the justice of the war" (Davidson 1206). Robert McNamara, Defense Secretary, was the "most dramatic defector from the establishment position" (1207). McNamara eventually came to doubt the success of America and finally began to question the morality of the situation. In 1968, things took a turn for the worse when television reports showed the "Vietnamese side of the war" (1208) and this event was followed by the Tet…...
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Bailey, Thomas, et al. The American Pageant. Lexington D.C. Heath and Company. 1994.
Chodorow, Stanley. A History of the World. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers.
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Based upon my own orientation to cooperative efforts required to sustain a mission driven organization such as the armed forces, I would say that my role in this process is most like that of a logistician. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics defines a logistician as someone who works to "analyze and coordinate the logistical functions of a firm or organization (BLS, 2011). My occupation as a registered nurse actually serves the exact purpose for my organization. There are numerous job functions that a registered nurse must perform. The vast majority of them are inherently related to the duties of a logistician as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One of those job functions that directly relates to registered nurses is the degree of organization that this profession is responsible for. Each and every day, I am…...
mlaReferences
Moss, G. (2010). Vietnam: An American Ordeal. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
No author. (2011). "Occupational Employment Statistics." Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes131081.htm
Vietnam War which was a legacy of the inability of the French to suppress the nationalist movement in Indochina. The article contains five references.
The Vietnam War was a legacy of the inability of the French to suppress the nationalist movement in Indochina and the colonial power had been struggling to restore its dominion after the Second World War. In 1954, France was ousted from Indochina after a communist-dominated revolutionary movement led by Ho Chi Minh frustrated the French attempts to maintain their presence in Indochina. Vietnam was divided into two parts. North Vietnam had a communist government led by Ho Chi Minh while South Vietnam had an anti-communist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem. [Vietnam War Internet Project 2003]
The involvement of the United States in Vietnam was a result of the desire to contain communism and to contain China after its intervention against the United Nations in Korea. The…...
mlaReferences
FAS Military Analysis Network. "Vietnam War." 2003. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/vietnam.htm
Max Boot. "The Wrong War: Why We Lost In Vietnam." Commentary Magazine, January 1999. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1061/1_107/53501097/p1/article.jhtml
Harry G. Summers et al. "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War." October, 1995. ISBN: 0891415637
http://www.historyofmilitary.com/On_Strategy_A_Critical_Analysis_of_the_Vietnam_War_0891415637.html
" (The Wars for Vietnam) There was also in increase in bombing and the air war over North Vietnam. Conflict intensified and Nixon severely bombed targets in Hanoi and Haiphong in 1972. This action brought condemnation for the international community and further increased the problematics for America of pursuing the war. This was to have the effect of forcing the Nixon administration to reconsider its negotiation strategies.
After fifteen years of war which had resulted in a large number of both civilian and military deaths, the direct involvement of the United States ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Fighting was to continue between the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the combined People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). However the Viet Cong forces were victorious over the RVN and the war was brought to a close. The country thereafter became "... unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam…...
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History of Vietnam: Tet Offensive. November 9, 2005. http://www.vwam.com/vets/tet/tet.html
Tet offensive: a turning point in the Vietnam War. November 10, 2005. http://www.marxist.com/1968/vietnam.html
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The Wars for Vietnam. November 11, 2005. http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html
Academic writing also requires a special set of terminology. Even when writing for the political arena, terminology is important and effective in good writing.
14. I will probably be inclined to write in academically. My strategy will be to read as much from academic publications as I can.
15. Below are examples of AA style:
Bailey, Ronald. (1998). "Human Cloning Experiments Should be Allowed." Cloning. Winters, aul, ed. San Diego: Greenhaven ress.
Ardolino, Frank. "I'm not a Dime a Dozen." Journal of Evolutionary sychology. (2002) 174.11. Retrieved from the roquest database.
resident Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban." (2002). White House ress Release. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html
Reeves, Dana. (2008, January 10). A Difference of Opinion. Songwriters, 13, 4. Retrieved from the Academic Search remier database.
16. One of the AA style tips I found useful was when to use the comma. For this style, it is incorrect to use a comma before and…...
mlaPresident Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban." (2002). White House Press Release. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html
Reeves, Dana. (2008, January 10). A Difference of Opinion. Songwriters, 13, 4. Retrieved from the Academic Search Premier database.
16. One of the APA style tips I found useful was when to use the comma. For this style, it is incorrect to use a comma before and restrictive clause, between two parts of a compound sentence, and when separating parts of measurement. I found this tip to be useful because I am always wondering about comma use. I am prone to use them too much, so I will keep this in mind. The referencing tip concerning two or more cited sources within parenthesis is helpful. The proper way to do this is to list the sources in alphabetical order and separate them with a comma. When it comes to noting more than one author in one citation, I would definitely be at a loss before I read this. Another helpful tip is when referencing a newspaper article that has no author. In this case, the work should be listed in alphabetical order by the first significant word in the title of the article. In the paper itself, the name of the article should be condensed if it is long. For example, an article entitled, "The Significance of Daisy Petals in Contemporary Art" would be condensed to "Daisy Petals" and the word Daisy would be the first significant word in which it would be cited. This tip is helpful to me because many articles that are on the Internet come from credible news sources but they do not list an author.
popular painting of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial features a lone man in a business suit, his head bowed, placing his hand on the dark, black granite wall of the memorial on which are written the names of the dead and missing. Reflected in the monument are the images of the men he remembers that were stationed with him. Such powerful emotional images are not uncommon to veterans who share the usually painful memory of having served in the military action that lasted from 1959 until 1973 and claimed 58,226 American lives.
According to the National Park Service, the Memorial is not a war Memorial but rather a Memorial to those who served in the war, both living and dead. his follows a popular theme of creating holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day that attempted to recognize the contributions of servicemen rather than to glorify war. his idea is…...
mlaThe design and plans received final Federal approval in March of 1982, and work at the site was begun on March 16, 1982. The architectural firm of Cooper-Lecky Partnership supervised construction. Maya Ying Lin was quoted as saying that "...this memorial is for those who have died, and for us to remember them."
The wall begins with the inscription "In honor of the men and women of the armed forces of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. The names of those who gave their lives and of those who remain missing are inscribed in the order they were taken from us." It ends by saying, "Our nation honors the courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty and country of its Vietnam veterans. This Memorial was built with private contributions from the American People. November 11, 1982.
The memorial, which underwent some criticism when it was erected, now enjoys the solemn respect of almost everyone in the country. Loved ones regularly drop off flowers, but it is the other things left that are the most haunting; things such as six-packs of beer, favorite shirts, and pictures of smiling friends. These are collected by the nearby Smithsonian Museum and examples are regularly displayed.
Vietnam War
The lessons from Vietnam War
The quest for independence in Vietnam m was widely violent and involved factions arming themselves to face the other. Ho Chi Minh who was a communist activist by 1941 sneaked back to Vietnam after 30 years in exile and helps put together Vietnam Independence League. Immediately after World War II, Ho Chi Minh sent his guerillas to help free some captured American pilots from the Japanese. The year 1945 was an action packed year in the history of Vietnam. It was the year of the global World War II and the issue of global influence was the agenda for every country. Vietnam was drawn into the global event in 1945 since it was during this year that rumors about an imminent American attack of Japan that Japanese ousted the French colonialist so as to have control over Vietnam and installed Bao Dai as the Japanese…...
mlaReferences
Anderson D., (1999). The Military and Diplomatic Course of the Vietnam War. Retrieved
August 16, 2013 from http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/anderson.htm
Australian War Memorial, (2013). Vietnam War 1962-75. Retrieved August 16, 2013 from http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/vietnam.asp
Miller, D., & Maier, P. (n.d.). Resource: A Biography of America . Learner.org - Teacher
One of the more shameful moments in American history was the establishment of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. Ostensibly started because the United States was at war with Japan, it is interesting to note that there were no similar internment camps for people of Italian or German descent, despite the fact that Italy and Germany were also part of the Axis powers that fought against the Allies in World War II.
Prior to World War II, Japanese began immigrating to America for work opportunities. They initially immigrated to Hawaii, which was annexed by the United....
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